Robotics R&D — Custom Robot Design & Development
From concept to functional robot — mechanical design, embedded electronics, and autonomous navigation.
MotiveLab's robotics team combines deep expertise in mechanical engineering, embedded systems, and autonomous software to deliver custom robots for service, industrial, and agricultural applications. We take projects from initial concept through prototyping and into production, ensuring every robot is robust, reliable, and field-ready.
What We Offer
- Mechanical design — structural design, material selection, and manufacturing-ready CAD models
- Embedded systems — custom PCB design, firmware development, and real-time control
- Control software — motor control, state machines, and high-level behavior architecture
- Sensor integration — LiDAR, cameras, IMUs, and ultrasonic sensors fused for robust perception
- Navigation & SLAM — autonomous mapping, localization, and path planning in dynamic environments
💡 We have delivered 20+ custom robot platforms across service, warehouse, and agricultural sectors.
Technologies
- ROS / ROS2 — robotic middleware and ecosystem
- SLAM — GMapping, Cartographer, and custom pipelines
- Navigation stack — global/local planners, costmaps, recovery behaviors
- Embedded Linux — Yocto/Buildroot, device drivers, real-time kernels
- Real-time control — FreeRTOS, bare-metal, preempt-RT
- Sensor fusion — extended Kalman filters, complementary filters
Industries
- Service robotics — delivery, cleaning, hospitality
- Warehouse automation — autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
- Agricultural robots — inspection, harvesting, spraying
- Inspection robots — confined space, pipeline, infrastructure